The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010. October 2010[edit]. 1[ edit]. Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist. Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach. Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes. Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of …

1962 – Wikipedia – October 14 – The beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A U-2 flight over Cuba in the Caribbean photographs Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues for another 12 days after President Kennedy is told of the pictures, between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with …